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We have a similar knife switch and fuse arrangement on a wall in the basement of our 110-year-old house. It's no longer connected to anything, but it does give that nice "Dr. Frankenstein's Laboratory" feeling!

In 1920 that would have been darn good advice. Hard to imagine now, but the radio boom was a bigger deal then, than the internet was in 1995. First ever development of a mass media market. It didn't "bust" until the 50s, at which point the same people could have gotten in on the TV boom.

Shorpy.com | History in HD is a vintage photo blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.